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1860s
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1860 Election.
Abraham Lincoln is Elected 16th President on November 6th. Abraham Lincoln was the republican candidate. -
Beginning of the Confederate states.
South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession. Which mad it the 1st state to secede from the Union. -
Civil War
1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
In the same month Mississippi, Flordia, and Alabama seceed from the Union. -
Civil War.
91 total battles were fought. 29 of them the confederate states won. 44of them the Union won and 18 were undecided. -
Slavery.
Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves. 95 were also fought in this year. -
Election and Battles.
Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president
Also 135 total battles were fought in 1864 -
Civil war
General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant -
New Technology.
1st ambulance goes into service -
1st Civil Rights Act
1st Civil Rights Act stated that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, no matter the background, race, gender,etc. -
New State!
US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) -
Andrew Johnson
President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote -
Judical System!
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 -
Invention
Cornelius Swarthout patents the first waffle iron!
